"We've converted the recreation room in our house into my home studio. It's a nice large space, about 500 square feet, and 3 big windows. It's right next to our bedroom and also next to the laundry room and kitchen. So I flit back a forth from studio work, to cooking, to laundry to caring for my 5 kids. I have a place in the studio for just about everything my work requires...a computer table for developing my artwork, emailing and blogging, a drafting table for painting and drawing, a ten foot long handmade tack wall for inspirational scraps of different sorts, a decoupage work table that holds up a huge shelf of fabrics arranged by color, a sewing table built from an old door by my husband with shelves of trims and baubles at the back, a hand-painted "think" table and chairs in the center of the room for planning collections, and a bed (!) where the kids can lay down and read or play while I work....often its holding piles upon piles of laundry too. All four walls are painted different colors and will likely keep changing as my interest in different palettes change. The studio is getting more cozy by the day as I add sentimental items, comfortable furniture and more and more fabric! There also just happens to be stairs that lead off the studio up to about 3000 square feet of unfinished attic that I have been dreaming of expanding into....more on that soon."
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